A little preview of the very cool book Live… Suburbia!, coming out on Powerhouse Books at the end of the month.

• Emma Straub wrote something for Rookie that has the tags, 90210, first time, Friday Night Lights, sex, and TV.

• Upton Sinclair was born on this day in 1887, and so was Jelly Roll Morton, two years earlier, in 1885.

• Salman Rushdie is on Twitter.  No word if he’s following @Qwikster or not.

• The 2011 MacArthur Genius Grants have been announced.  We were snubbed again, but what can you do?

• How Shel Silverstein came back to life.  (Sorta like Tupac…)

• The life and times of Nobel Prize winning physicist–chemist Marie Curie came to the United States.

• Guided by Voices go metal, as Torche covers three of the iconic lo-fi band’s songs.